Texas GOP Platform Calls For Repealing Voting Rights Act Of 1965

[ProSense]

Texas GOP Platform Calls For Repealing Voting Rights Act Of 1965 | The Republican Party of Texas released its platform this month, calling on Congress to repeal the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. “We urge that the Voter [sic] Rights Act of 1965 codified and updated in 1973 be repealed and not reauthorized,” the platform reads. Texas is one of nine states with a history of racial discrimination that must get clearance from the Department of Justice before altering its voting laws.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/06/26/506363/texas-gop-voting-rights-act/

[clang1]

1. Of course the do. Their attacks against democracy continue

it is blitzkrieg happening across America. ANYTHING to disfranchise people from their vote.

[flamingdem]

4. This is a Blitzkreig, they rely on Democrats being too reasonable

to manage such a blatant attack.

They figured they'd distract everyone with Holder and pull this off

[clang1]

5. as some others have said as well... UNTIL this is somehow stopped once and for all

this will be EVERY election cycle. Hell maybe I forget my own American history but this is BULLSHIT. No I have not forgotten, this is NEW. This is way more sophisticated than what they used to do and more dangerous. All of it is. ITS SIMPLE. NO NEED TO BEAT PEOPLE UP WHEN THEY CANT GO TO THE POLLS TO BEGIN WITH. People should realize that because that is all this is. It not American.

[flamingdem]

11. It's not American. I wish there was a movement already going strong on this

-- because this is where the rubber meets the road. The number one tool against repukes -- voting.

[TheDebbieDee]

9. ANYTHING to disenfranchise black and brown people from their vote........

[clang1]

13. Then what you don't get.... It is NOT only black and brown people

DAMN. It is everyone! Do you think that list in Florida is sorted by color? PLEASE

As usual, people not seeing past their own noses and they win! What is so damn hard for people to see about that. People don't even use their own common sense and that is a losing proposition to me.

[TheDebbieDee]

20. No, the list is not sorted by color - it is sorted by zip code, more than likely!

Zip codes in which a preponderence of the residents are low-income, black, brown or have Hispanic surnames, etc.

A zip code tells marketers whether or not the residents can afford what they are selling - in this case they are selling the GOP and they may determine that they may get no buyers in that zip code.

And, I have plenty of common sense - apparently alot more than you.......

[clang1]

28. You think about that.... I don't care. I already know. n/t

[PCIntern]

2. Next: Women's right to vote

Mark my words...

Bastards...

[clang1]

3. There IS ALWAYS a next n/t

[hifiguy]

34. Count on it. As sure as eggs is eggs.

And you can rest assured that Scalia and "Uncle Clarence" Thomas are trying to figure out a way to gut the 13th Amendment, too.

[LynneSin]

6. Only Texas? I thought that was the national GOP party

I have way more respect for someone who is a member of the skinheads or KKK because at least they have the balls to tell you they are racist unlike the chickenshit GOP who hides behind their fancy suits and $400 haircuts and claim they aren't racist even when they support shit like that.

[clang1]

8. Texas has been on their mind for a long time... Texas then the other 8 states are next....

TX GOP Senate Candidates Unanimously Oppose Voting Rights Act

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/03/16/445917/tx-gop-senate-candidates-unanimously-oppose-voting-rights-act/

They called for repeal of the Voting Rights Act provision that requires Texas and other Southern states with histories of discrimination to receive pre-clearance when changing election laws.

“Right now, Texas is subjected to different standards than much of the country,” former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz said during the forum, hosted by the Dallas Bar Association. “I think we need to be fighting to ensure the law is colorblind and fair to everyone.”


Voting Rights Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act

States and counties requiring preclearance under Section 5 of the VRA as of January, 2008. Several small jurisdictions have since bailed out,[21] but the majority of the map remains accurate
The jurisdictions listed below must be precleared (see 28 C.F.R. part 51 appendix):[22]

States
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Georgia, except for the city of Sandy Springs
Louisiana
Mississippi
South Carolina
Texas
Virginia, except for fourteen counties (Amherst, Augusta, Botetourt, Essex, Frederick, Greene, Middlesex, Page, Pulaski, Roanoke, Rockingham, Shenandoah, Washington and Warren) and four independent cities (Fairfax, Harrisonburg, Salem, and Winchester)

SOON EVEN MORE SECRET VOTER PURGE LISTS COMING TO A CITY NEAR YOU JUST LIKE IN FLORIDA
RIGHT NOW

The progression continues...

[dsc]

25. I thought we in NC had to pre clear

guess you learn something new every day. I can't figure out how we avoided it but apparently we did.

[malaise]

7. Next - bring back slavery

Fuck these fucking fuckers

[freshwest]

18. They've been advocating that, just using different terms.

And saying that ending slavery caused a holocaust for blacks from being set free.

Scalia cited essentially eugenics laws on when states were able to evict or punish anyone in their states who were poor, disabled or the wrong color, in his vote on immigration law. Obama and the DOJ are resisting him and now the GOP is calling to impeach him for it.

I never expected to see a return of this level of regression in my lifetime. And they will win either way if the American people keep electing them.

If a civil war ensues, they win because they've gutted the ability of civil government to fight back.

If we don't have a civil war, keep on putting up with them and allow them to continue to destroy civil soceity, and give in they also win.

Only solution is to keep the person in office who is fighting them off. And put more in to support him doing it.

We are living in a time when we can choose. For a little while longer, anyway.

[Thinkingabout]

10. GOP conservatives are just short of middle east ultra conservatives.

Newtie used to talk about sharia law and GOP is going to hack their way to be in step with sharia laws.

[AJTheMan]

12. Conservatives want to conserve the status quo from 1600's

Like when everything was a theocracy, women stayed home to make food and babies and blacks tended to the farms.

[clang1]

14. Some people think saying that is funny and a joke but it's true

IT WILL LOOK SOMETHING LIKE THAT ONLY MODERN so merely imagine the possibilities.

There is already the prison state, that's easy, its already done, what's next? You can already add to this list now even. Serfdom is what they want. Add working for Walmart at 8 dollars an hour, add no health care, no own place to live... Already modern Serfdom. Keep going.... It IS going to happen people, it is already HAPPENING. Things cannot be any clearer than what they already are. It is that simple.

[hifiguy]

35. Feudalism has always been the right's dominant worldview.

The peasantry knows its place and stays there - at the point of a sword - a small class of gentry serves the aristocrats as administrators and managers and the aristocrats (1%) rule everything, unchallenged and unchallengeable. Twas ever thus.

[AsahinaKimi]

15. "The Act is widely considered a landmark in civil-rights legislation"

Why am I not surprised? The Republicans only want White Republican Males to vote and will find a way to disenfranchise anyone who doesn't fit this mold. Those who want this are not true Americans. They are fascists of the highest degree. I wonder if this might not be worthy of the label "treason" ?

[clang1]

16. In my book? YES

Morally what they do is TREASON. Hell more than morally...what they do is TREASON. I just do not know what else to call it other than that, same as you. ITS OBVIOUS WHAT IT IS OTHERWISE PEOPLE WOULD NOT SAY IT. WE CAN SEE IT --And that is what matters... I am no lawyer, but it seems to me we need some new laws. Something must be done. You can never stop this by trying to only stop pieces of it. What's left when you do that just continues on.... Period. That is the way this stuff works. All you do is slow it some...in the end the same results.

[1StrongBlackMan]

17. Well ...

That certainly makes this 1StrongBlackMan want to move to Texas!

[clang1]

27. Good attitude ;-) n/t

[Posteritatis]

19. "We oppose the teaching of critical thinking skills"

I know a lot of people hate education (on both sides of the aisle, even if the GOP's vastly worse), but I don't think I've ever seen that stated that baldly before. Goddamn.

[clang1]

24. +1000

and when people DO Think, they let others FRAME their thoughts. Think about that. It's not by accident that it is so.

[cynatnite]

21. Well, I wonder why they'd want to do that?

[IMG][/IMG]

[GarroHorus]

22. They don't even try to hide the blatant racism any more. n/t

[clang1]

23. Yes... And what is going on right now

You could be brown,white,black, whatever...it does not matter your color. THAT IS NOT WHAT ALL OF THIS IS ABOUT. PERIOD.

[Dawson Leery]

26. The party of abolition is now the party of the plantation owner.

[nanabugg]

29. Well, any black, brown, yellow, or red people in Texas should never vote for a GOPer again..

not even the ones in the 1%.

[Lil Missy]

30. They don't even try to hide it anymore. n/t

[Aerows]

31. Damn

They don't even hide it anymore. I honestly thought Republicans couldn't sink any lower, but as usual, they prove me wrong.

[Skittles]

32. SCHEDULING AEROWS FOR ASS KICKING

FOR THINKING THE GOP COULDN'T SINK ANY LOWER

*EGREGIOUS*

No matter how low they go the GOP can ALWAYS go lower

[Aerows]

33. LOL

You are quite right. I will accept my ass kicking and never doubt that they can go lower again

[Mosaic]

36. Another Crazy Idea from Texas Repugs

It will die like most crazy things do. Repugs are like little children lashing out at Mexicans for now becoming the majority. This an amusing act of desperation by a party of lunatics. America needs two parties, a Democratic one for capitalism, and another for socialism, the People. The so called greedy old party must die, or at the very least fade away. We know how they cheat, lie, steal and how corrupt they are. We must unite to end this cancer on our nation. God bless America, all of us no matter what race, ethnicity, gender, etc. We are America, and we will triumph!

[w8liftinglady]

37. well,the black and brown people in Texas have historically voted Democratic.

Republicans are afraid.The Hispanic voting bloc has been a little too uppity lately.Time to put them in their place.

[Mosaic]

38. Uppity

I know you are kidding, but it is the repugs that are uppity in this case as they are the MINORITY. Texas no longer has whites as a majority, please never forget that. And that's okay, that is the future. It's up to us Democrats to put them in their place!